Natural Blogarithms

This post is simply a test of the LaTEX plugin that I supposedly have installed on this blog.  I haven’t used it in conjunction with Windows Live Writer Beta, my preferred blog writing software.
Feel free to sing along to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel” as you read the quadratic formula below:

Speaking of which, [...]

In my math models course this term, my students have begun working on their projects.  They will complete 3 – 4 modeling projects throughout the semester.  We just completed work on a Highway Design Problem with some basic curve fitting techniques to join two or three different grades (slopes) of road sections using parabolic [...]